University of Maryland School of Medicine - Terrae Mariae Medicus (Baltimore, MD)

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JOHN WESLEY BOSSARD A Marylander all the way, John was born in Hagerstown on August 5, 1924, married Esther Holter in August of 1946 in Middletown and now lives in Glen Burnie. Reversing the usual trend, John went to Carolina for his college days, received an A.B. from Duke University in Durham. On January 5, 1951, John and Es- ther became the parents of a son whom they named Robert. John is quiet, unassuming, ap- parently unharassed by trivia of any sort; is def- initely not the ulcer type. He has made no long term plans— he figures the future will take care of itself. JOHN VANDALE BRANNON John V. Brannon, better known to friends and bridge opponents as Sly John, hails from Bridgeport in the Mountaineer State. He at- tended the University of West Virginia for sev- eral years when the call of the west took him to Texas. He helped develop the Rockefeller funds until Uncle Sam called him to instruct A.A.F. Cadets, after which he flew a B-29 over Japan. In 1942 Pauline Ward took John in hand. Since then John Jr., 7, and Beverly Joan, 5, have assumed command. Upon discharge John returned to Fairmont State College and was rewarded with a B.S. John plans a quiet life in the southwest as a G.P. 20

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BEVERLY ROBERT BIRELY B. Robert spent his first twenty-eight years working towards his M.D. Born in Baltimore, undergraduate work at College Park, three years, twenty-eight months of which were in the S.W. Pacific with the Army Amphibious Command, helped pass twenty-four of the years. His mar- riage in June of last year consumed another day. Summer vacations since migration from the down-state campus to the Baltimore exten- sion of Maryland ' s University have been spent fishing, boating and externing at Union Mem- orial. Depending upon finances, either G.P. or Internal Medicine will consume the remainder of his three-score-ten. NANCY BLADES Nancy was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1926 but now resides in Summit, N.J. She received her A.B. degree from Connecticut College. Her hobbies include music and sports, particularly golf. Being a female, she is well versed in the culinary arts, as verified by the healthy fat look of some of her classmates. Her summers have been spent traveling, working at children ' s play- grounds, and as a camp counselor. A member of Alpha Omega Alpha, she was elected class secre- tary her junior and senior years. She externed at Women ' s Hospital in Baltimore her senior year and plans to specialize in Pediatrics. 19

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JOHN RUSSELL BUELL, JR. Via Bates College, Middleberg College and the U. of NL, this Sparrows Point product mean- dered his academic way to Lombard and Greene. This route took a thirty-six-month consuming detour through the Navy where John served as Communications Officer aboard a destroyer. He has worked in the Sparrows Point steel plant both in the mill and in the company hospital. A college romance, he reports, terminated in April of 1945 with marriage. However, wom- en still heads his list of hobbies, with beer, golf, and United States coin collecting following. After graduation he aspires to coin collecting (U.S.) as a General Practitioner. RUSSEL LEE CHRISTOPHER Chris bummed his first cigarette in Pawtucket, Rhode Island in lOliT; since then has elevated this simple habit spasm to an art. A graduate of Bowdoin College and a medical corpsman in the big war, Chris keeps his fingers nimble for his future in surgery by exercising them on the musical ivories. A summer ' s work in Dr. Uhlen- huth ' s lively lab put an edge on his scalpel and he has gained a summer ' s office experience with a local M.D. Chris is a member of Phi Beta Pi medical fraternity, and a family man. Chris Jr. arrived on the scene in 1949. 21